- X-Files, shmex-files...the paranormal is a crock, right?
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- Well, ye of little faith, consider the story of a Montreal
couple who asked an "animal communicator" in Texas for help in
finding their missing cat. Taiway, the temperamental 10-year-old that had
disappeared during the summer, showed up in early November after Peter
Edwards and Rona Harun had a phone conversation with Sonia Fitzpatrick,
who channeled messages from the lost cat.
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- "We're not a New Age couple," said Edwards,
a 32-year-old musician and computer programmer. "We don't wear crystals
or practice odd rituals. We are realists, and this really happened to us."
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- Harun, 31, who taught math at Dawson College and John
Abbott until their daughter was born 18 months ago, echoed her husband's
disclaimer. They were skeptical of psychic phenomena.
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- "Using Sonia was our last-ditch effort to find Taiway,"
Harun said. "We said we'll do this, then we'll give up."
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- On Aug. 14, a month after they moved into their new apartment
in the Mile End district, Taiway went out for her usual 9:30 p.m. prowl.
Edwards and Harun got worried when the cat, which they describe as shy
and very cautious around unfamiliar people and animals, didn't return by
morning.
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- They tacked up Missing Cat posters and searched alleys.
As the days stretched into weeks, neighbourhood cat-lovers told Edwards
and Harun disturbing stories.
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- Some people, it was said, used cat traps, baited with
sardines. The captured animals would then be picked up by the city's cat
pound, which would euthanize cats that were not claimed within three days.
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- There were also rumours of weird goings-on. Mile End
cats, Edwards and Harun were told, had been snatched by sadists who mutilated
animals.
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- The horror stories intensified their desire to find Taiway.
Through the late summer and into autumn, Edwards was a weekly visitor to
the city's cat pound. Then he heard about psychics who claim they can communicate
with missing animals.
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- Having checked out Fitzpatrick's Web site (www.petvoice.com),
Edwards and Harun sent a picture of Taiway, along with $150 U.S., to Texas.
The payment covered a 60-minute telephone consultation.
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- "Sonia became a cat talking to our cat," Harun
said. "She felt what Taiway was feeling."
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- Fitzpatrick asked if Harun had changed her hair colour,
which she had, going from her natural brown to red just before the cat
disappeared.
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- "Taiway is not sure that she likes the colour,"
the psychic said - first of many grievances that Fitzpatrick relayed from
the missing cat. Taiway didn't like her new feeding bowls, she missed the
old bedspread she used to sleep on and she wondered what happened to her
blue ball.
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- There were also complaints about the neighbours, particularly
a menacing dog and cat living in the downstairs apartment.
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- At the beginning of the session, Fitzpatrick said Taiway
had "a bit of an attitude" and was not warming up to her. After
30 minutes, however, there was sufficient trust that the psychic was able
to ask the missing cat where she was and what she was up to.
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- "Sonia asked her if she'd been staying with people
and Taiway was highly offended," Harun said. "Taiway bragged
about her independence. She said she was a strong outdoor cat."
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- The session ended with a few hints about Taiway's location.
The missing cat was hiding out near a green awning and some large trash
receptacles.
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- Edwards started searching again.
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- Four days later, Harun was nursing the baby at 1 a.m.
when she saw a cat's shadow at the back door. Taiway was back - and she
hasn't strayed since.
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- Edwards and Harun will be featured in a new book that
the animal communicator is writing (her first was called What the Animals
Tell Me). Fitzpatrick may talk about them when she appears on Larry King
Live, once CNN's election frenzy subsides. For their part, the Montrealers
have been recommending Fitzpatrick to friends whose pets are missing.
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- Was it a paranormal incident - or just a coincidence?
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- "If Taiway had come back after two or three weeks,
I'd chalk it up to coincidence," Harun said. "But she was gone
for months. Then we had a session with Sonia and she came back a few nights
later."
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- "I had a weird feeling when I was out looking that
night," Edwards added. "It's hard to explain."
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